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KANSAS

The output of coal in Kansas was greater in 1923 than in 1921 or 1922, but with these exceptions it was less than for any year since 1899, when 3,852,267 tons was produced. The production in 1923 was 4,443,149 tons, with a total value of $14,275,000 and an average value of $3.21.

The tons mined per day in the months of 1923 and the five preceding years are charted in Figure 49.,

The statistics of coal production in Kansas published by the Geological Survey for the years 1921 and 1922 are now known to have been incomplete. For those years the Survey relied entirely upon correspondence in collecting the statistics and neither sent an agent into the field nor checked its returns against those of the State mine officials. The market conditions were such as to stimulate the activity of small mines and cooperative mines not bound by the union scale, and later comparison with the returns of the State Coal Mine Inspection Department showed that the Survey had failed to obtain reports from all the mines operating in those years. Thus in 1922 the mines reporting to the State inspection department produced 3,318,243 tons, and the department estimated an additional quantity of 200,000 tons from miscellaneous small mines. The production of the mines reporting to the Geological Survey (Table 95) for 1922 was 2,955,170 tons, of which 178,924 tons came from wagon mines served by rail. The details by counties in the State report are given in the footnote to Table 95. In 1921 the State inspection department showed a total output of 4,028,624 tons, including its estimate for the small mines, against a figure of 3,466,641 tons published by the Geological Survey. For 1923 and for years prior to 1921 there is no material discrepancy between the State and Survey figures.

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• Includes also loaders and shot firers.

These figures for 1922 are incomplete. The State Coal Mine Inspection Department gives the following figures for 1922, which are believed to be complete: Cherokee County, 548,764 tons, 1,351 men; Crawford County, 2,418,572 tons, 7,073 men; Leavenworth County, 163,868 tons, 187 men; Osage County, 92,787 tons, 504 men; Linn County, 94,252 tons, 261 men; total mines reporting, 3,318,243 tons, 9,376 men; estimated small mines not reporting, 200,000 tons, 250 men; grand total, including estimate, 3,518,243 tons, 9,626 men.

TABLE 96.-Coal produced in Kansas, 1919-1923, in net tons

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Figures for 1921 and 1922 are incomplete. The State Coal Mine Inspection Department reports 4,028,624 tons produced in 1921 and 3,518,243 tons produced in 1922. See Table 95, note .

Leavenworth includes Osage.

Includes Bourbon.

No canvass of wagon mines for 1921.

KENTUCKY

Again Kentucky broke its own record with the output of coal in 1923, although the rate of increase was not so great as in most of the other States. The production was 44,777,317 tons, a gain of 2,643,142 tons, or 6.3 per cent, over that of 1922. This gain lay entirely in the eastern part of the State, not a single county in western Kentucky recording an increase. The wagon mines served by rail showed a loss of 361,568 tons, or 77 per cent. Although the total value of the eastern Kentucky coal was $7,295,000 greater than in the preceding year, that for the western district fell off $19,011,000, and there was a drop of $1,779,000 in the value of the coal from wagon mines; the net decrease for the State was therefore $13,495,000, or 10.6 per cent.

There is a marked difference in the average number of days worked in the two districts-161 in the eastern and only 127 in the western. The accompanying diagram (fig. 50) shows the course of daily production for the State as a whole and the average spot prices per ton for the two districts, for the years 1918 to 1922 and for 1923 by months. From 1918, when the daily output averaged about 103,000 tons, to January, 1923, the increase was 38,000 tons, or 37 per cent, and to October (the highest point reached in the period charted) the daily average increased 64,000 tons, or 62 per cent. March showed the lowest average in 1923. Spot prices in both eastern and western Kentucky declined steadily throughout the year, except for a temporary recovery in western Kentucky during August and September.

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FIGURE 50.-Production of coal per working day in Kentucky, and trend of spot prices, run-of-mine g:ade, for eastern and western Kentucky, 1918-1923. Data from Tables 78 and 79; spot prices as quoted by Coal Age

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• Includes also loaders and shot firers.

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